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Subject: Re: H340 HDD spinning constantly in USB mode? (and general disk spin time question)

Re: H340 HDD spinning constantly in USB mode? (and general disk spin time question)

From: Andreas Stemmer <groovingandi_at_gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:51:44 +0100

Mike Hodson wrote:
> To me, for the year and some now that I've used Rockbox, I was under
> the impression that this controlled how much audio was buffered- not
> how often the buffer was refilled. I've wondered on numerous
> occasions, "if I set the buffer to 10 minutes, will I have enough
> memory to store that much audio?"

I think you misunderstood Paul's explanation. Setting the anti-skip
buffer to 5 seconds doesn't mean that the buffer is refilled every 5
seconds. It means that the buffer is refilled 5 seconds before the music
would stop. In general, you want to have zero anti-skip buffer, i.e.
spin up the disk as late as possible before running out of buffered
data. The anti-skip buffer is the safety margin you have in this case
(for the price of battery life of course).

> Thanks for this info- I will set mine to 10m now (also an H3xx)

This is not a good idea if you want to get decent runtime. Actually I
don't know why anybody would want to have an anti-skip buffer of 10 mins.

Andreas


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